Departmental Pay

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been paid in bonuses to civil servants in his Department in each year since 1997.

Kevan Jones: Total amounts of all types of bonus paid to MOD civilian personnel in each financial year since 2003-04 are provided in the following table:
	
		
			   Bonus total (£) 
			 2003-04 24,866,213 
			 2004-05 34,106,162 
			 2005-06 43,317,178 
			 2006-07 39,147,749 
			 2007-08 46,103,238 
			 2008-09 52,984,656 
			 2009-10 47,283,853 
		
	
	Figure for 2009-10 is a partial year figure covering the period 1 April 2009 to 31 October 2009.
	We are unable to provide details of bonus payments paid during the period April 1997 to March 2003 as the data are no longer available electronically and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.